The truth for a change by Editors
December 31, 2012: Years of exaggerating their losses, and deliberately trying to get their own civilians killed (for propaganda purposes) has caught up with the Palestinians, who are now being accused of war crimes (for using those tactics. This was because Israel was able to provide enough video evidence of Palestinians in Gaza firing
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Obama’s Head-in-the-Sand Speech on Terror by Barry Rubin
If one wanted to come up with a slogan for the Obama Administration it would be that to win the war on terrorism one must lose the war on revolutionary Islamism because only by showing that America is the Islamists’ friend will it take away the incentive to join al-Qaida and attack the United States. So: why have not hundreds of such denials had the least bit of effect on the course of that war? ...
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Woolwich attack: 'Lone wolves’ who run with the pack by Andrew Gilligan
You get what you reward. ...
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A billion good reasons to sell the broadcaster by Peter van Onselen
Time to dump on the privileged elite ...
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Lessons aplenty from terror attack by Greg Sheridan
For these young men with their London accents will have got themselves to the extreme end point of al-Qa'ida-style savagery and sadism entirely through the internet. The way they hacked at the soldier with meat cleavers and knives is reminiscent of the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002. ...
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Can the people trust the government? by Martin Sherman
The people of Israel are confronting a crisis of credibility. Can they trust the people elected to lead them? ...
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Journalists, Human Rights Officials Trash Israel in ‘Secret’ Facebook Group by Zach Pontz
Ever wondered about how the ISM, NGO, HRW manage their lockstep with the BBC, CNN, ABC....? ...
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The mass production of hate speech by Barry Rubin
Without comprehending this fact, the massive attacks from academia, mass media, groups, and even in mainstream political and intellectual debate cannot be understood. We aren’t dealing with lots of mistakes but with the mass production of hate speech. ...
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Top 10 Warning Signs You May be a ‘Guardian Left’ Anti-Semite by Adam Levick
Whilst I don’t speak fluent academic-ese like the esteemed Harvard professor, I have become adept at deciphering an even more obscure dialect – the language of the Guardian Left. ...
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Boycott continues centuries-old hatred by Cassandra Wilkinson
AS MPs prepare to sign the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism, it's timely to speak more openly about the bonds of convenience growing between elements of the Left and anti-Semitism. ...
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Answer to Vic Rosenthal’s Good Question about Al Durah by Richard Landes
Why didn’t then Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak demand that all the footage shot by France 2 on that day be placed at Israel’s disposal to do a proper investigation? ...
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Bell tolls for anti-Semitism by Howard Jacobson
I'd call this implicit racism if I were a citizen of those circumambient Muslim countries that aren't being boycotted - a tacit assumption that nothing can ever be done, say, about the persecution of women, the bombing of minorities, discrimination against Christians, the hanging of adulterers and homosexuals, and so on, because such things are intrinsic to their cultures - but at least now that we have got rid of anti-Semitism, tackling Islamophobia should not be slow to follow. ...
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Aunty a poor judge of bias by James Allan
Personally, I think there is real bias at the ABC. But let's say I'm wrong. Why not at least improve the awful appearances and pick, say, at least one conservative host of Media Watch (ever) or make sure that exactly half of those who appear on Insiders have a lineage on each side of politics? ...
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State Liberals propose privatising ABC, SBS by Josh Gordon
Classic ol' bun fight about the Australia's most sacred cow ...
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Radicals, Moderates and Islamists by Daniel Greenfield
To the Western observer, a suicide bomber is radical, a Muslim Imam willing to perform gay weddings is moderate and the Muslim Brotherhood leader who supports some acts of terror, but not others, is moderately radical or radically moderate. ...
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Fisking Rachel Shabi: How Dare the Israelis Suggest Palestinians Lied! by Richard Landes
When the Guardian came out with their first article on the Israeli report on Al Durah, I thought that even though it was done by Sherwood, it was fairly neutral. I should have known that CiF would deliver the goods. Below the reaction of Rachel Shabi, with fisking. ...
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The Al Durah Affair: What makes journalists behave so badly? by Richard Landes
The Israeli government finally came out with a report – thirteen years late – on the Muhammad al Durah affair. It’s thirteen years late. But not too late ...
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Reflections on Al Durah Staged and Conspiracy Theory by Richard Landes
The Al Durah coup was pulled off by a core of planners and actors, a larger circle of people who cooperated once the tale had been set in motion, and finally a broader circle of believers who were duped by the coup. In a basic sense, the issue is how many people need to know it’s a fake, and how many are duped? If it takes a really broad group of people who know it’s a fake and play along (including people at high public levels), then we’re dealing with a conspiracy. If it only takes a few who know and many more who are duped, it’s a sting. ...
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It’s easy being Green at the ABC, survey finds by Pia Ackerman
Is this why ABC journalists are so hostile to Jews? ...
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Letter: Coalition is expected to conduct a thorough reform of the ABC by Merv Bendle
Soundings on attitude to media reform ...
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